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Auction: 9025 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1300

Banque de Syrie et du Liban, specimen 50 livres, 1939, zero serial numbers, pink, blue and multicoloured, roses at left and right, at centre the Beiteddin Palace , value in maroon top left and right, signatures of Berard and Laferriere at low left, reverse blue and multicoloured, the Roman temple of Bacchus at centre, olives at left, grapes at right, LIBAN in text top right (Pick 19, Ayoub p.82 and 83), a Laurent engraving, perforated SPECIMEN, pencil numbers on reverse otherwise uncirculated, very rare, no issued example known of this type Estimate £ 3,200-3,400

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